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Investigative journalist and founder of Forensic News.

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Sanctioned Russian Bank Took Millions of Curaleaf Shares From Offshore Company Tied to CEO Boris Jordan

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By Scott Stedman
| The Newsground
The Curaleaf Papers·Part II The secret foreign financing behind the cannabis giant. In 2024 and 2025, the world’s largest cannabis company, Curaleaf, disclosed two loans involving Tangela Holdings, a Cyprus-based company with deep ties to Curaleaf CEO Boris Jordan, totaling about $9 million. These loans pale in comparison to the deals Tangela made behind the scenes.
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FBI Investigated Curaleaf for Corruption and Money Laundering

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By Scott Stedman
| The Newsground
The Curaleaf Papers·Part I The secret foreign financing behind the $4 billion cannabis giant. On October 29, 2018, cannabis giant Curaleaf went public on the Canadian Securities Exchange. In prior weeks, it had raised approximately $400 million from investors, valuing the company at $4 billion. It was the biggest cannabis company in the world, and its chairman, Boris Jordan, was a billionaire.
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Shadowy Russian Businessman Controls Half of Trump Tower Tbilisi Developer

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By Scott Stedman, Matt Bernardini Verified, Will Neal Verified
| The Newsground
Perched high above the hills on the northwestern edge of Tbilisi, Georgia, sits a 48,000-square-foot medieval-style palace. Georgian investigative journalists who filmed the site described a palace built taller and grander than the hilltop residence of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the sanctioned pro-Russia billionaire who founded Georgia’s ruling party. The property’s owner is Paata Gamgoneishvili, a Georgian-Russian oligarch who made his fortune in Moscow.
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